A Sarasota woman is testifying in an international trial that is making headlines in the United Kingdom, but most Americans haven't heard anything about it.

The case involves abuse allegations at a former residential school attended by thousands of young girls from 1961 until 1993.

Over all these years, we haven't forgotten, said Ali Flanagan.

Flanagan wrote us an email which said, Im the only survivor in the U.S. testifying in the historic Scottish Fornethy Residential School trial.

We searched for information about the school and discovered dozens of news stories from throughout the UK, many calling the school a house of horrors based on allegations by former students involving physical, psychological and sexual abuse.

Key witness testifies by video from federal courthouse.

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